PATRICK
RAFTER
VIOLINIST & CONDUCTOR
“There were moments when the two soloists could not be told apart. It’s no small feat to match a player of Vengerov’s calibre in this way…”
Michael Dervan, Irish Times 2019
Regarded as one of Ireland’s most outstanding musicians, international award-winning violinist and conductor Patrick Rafter has toured Europe, the Middle East, South America, and Asia as a soloist, director, conductor, and recitalist. Internationally, Patrick has been the grand prize winner of multiple competitions including the Valiant Violin Competition, Switzerland 2016, the London Performing Arts Competition 2017, and the Dublin Feis Ceoil Conducting Competition 2022.
Watch Patrick Rafter in performance with Maxim Vengerov at the National Concert Hall, Dublin.
“This is passionate, abandoned playing, full of excite ment, risks and drama… a dangerously virtuosic ability which seems to feed off itself.”
ALEXANDER BAILIE, RDS MUSIC FESTIVAL